1. Yes Vermont Yankee Blog: Atoms Not Dams: Surprising Facts for Earth Day.
Noting Jim Conca's post on the biggest power plants (by electricity produced, not by nameplate), I note that Vermont Yankee was a bigger power plant (produced more power per year) than Hoover Dam. Every Day is Earth Day when you support nuclear energy! Blog post by Meredith Angwin.
2. At Northwest Clean Energy Blog -Ecomodernism--a fresh approach to thinking about the environment
The "Ecomodernist Manifesto" and a recent New Yorker article by Jonathan Franzen both look at the balance of addressing climate change versus saving ecologies that exist today. The "Ecomodernist Manifesto" forms a more upbeat conclusion: with dense clean energy sources, such as nuclear and advanced solar, we can have vibrant ecologies, a healthy planet, and healthy people. (Franzen doesn't even mention nuclear as an option.) Blog post by Meredith Angwin.
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Noting Jim Conca's post on the biggest power plants (by electricity produced, not by nameplate), I note that Vermont Yankee was a bigger power plant (produced more power per year) than Hoover Dam. Every Day is Earth Day when you support nuclear energy! Blog post by Meredith Angwin.
2. At Northwest Clean Energy Blog -Ecomodernism--a fresh approach to thinking about the environment
The "Ecomodernist Manifesto" and a recent New Yorker article by Jonathan Franzen both look at the balance of addressing climate change versus saving ecologies that exist today. The "Ecomodernist Manifesto" forms a more upbeat conclusion: with dense clean energy sources, such as nuclear and advanced solar, we can have vibrant ecologies, a healthy planet, and healthy people. (Franzen doesn't even mention nuclear as an option.) Blog post by Meredith Angwin.
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